Shuffling out there onto the web in a totally convincing fashion is news of an impending Midi Festival happening in Shanghai for mid April......
The "down season" in Shanghai (and greater China) -- the period of the year when it gets to damn hot to do anything, bands go on breaks, and...
Following in Midi Festival's steel-toed Docs, Chengdu's Zebra Festival is hosting a Shanghai version of their music festival, running from...
Usualy bring the snark pretty heavily when announcing the weekly party picture galleries, but these two here of Shanghai's first MIDI Festival...
If you missed last weekend's Shanghai MIDI festival -- or if you just want to relive the magic -- a bunch of videos are on Tudou of all the...
As you've probably heard by now, Mr. Big, the marquee act of this year's Shanghai Midi Festival, is off the bill. They were scheduled to play...
Hey everybody! Do you want to go to this Shanghai Midi Festival thing? For free? SmartShanghai has some tickets to give away and all you...

Free the Birds and the rest will follow. Catching up with front woman, Helen Feng on music business and the business of music in China.

A run-down of this week in rock in SH, along with some stuff from The Morlocks, garage punk from the U.S.A. this Saturday at YYT.
Over at the estimable RockinChina.com -- the English-language portal for the Midi Festival -- they've got a first look at the Shanghai Midi...
Big things in the works in terms of rawk festivals for Shanghai and surrounding environs. We talked a bit before about Modern Sky’s...
A rundown of local band news -- releases, upcoming shows previews, and some downloads from local math rock band, X is Y.
In honor of it being a slow news day, week, year, we thought we'd stir the rock festival rumor pot a bit with two items for your consideration. ...
Although there's pretty much nil for Shanghai rock on offer at this year's Midi Festival (with the exception of Screaming Saviour), there's a...
Yeah, it's not in Shanghai, but it's fairly close... The city of Zhenjiang -- about 3 hours from Shanghai by train -- will host its second...
Information regarding a few larger music festival-ish events has landed in our inbox, and although we don't have any Midis or Zebras or...
In the interests of lazily regurgitating links, here's a little news regarding the Shanghai Midi Festival. Festival organizers are now...
'Twas a sombre announcement on Yunyintang's Facebook page that heralded the cancellation of the Shanghai Midi Festival -- the 'sad-face'...
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